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'FRANCISCAN' PEACE AND GOOD WILL TO YOU Hotel “experiences” tend to be cookery classes or a sunset cruise. Very few can offer a monk, but then very few are housed in a 13th-century former monastery halfway up a cliff. The clue to Anantara Convento di Amalfi is in the name, and Brother Marcus is a Franciscan friar. He’s a wise and calming presence, knowledgeable about the history and architecture of both the hotel and his Ravello town. The Monk’s Walk runs across the middle, and lucky monks: the bay of Amalfi far below, lemon trees on one side, bougainvillea above. I spent a weekend in a 700-year-old Amalfi hotel that has its own monk | The Times